"Rocket" from the ground to space

Jedidiah 2022-03-21 09:01:57

Jack is really charming, especially those eyes. I'm relieved to finally see them win awards, go to college, leave the coal mines, and escape the life that seems to have been prescribed. It's down to their own love, their own obsession, and most importantly everyone's strong desire to escape life in the coal mine. It's hard to imagine that this is their high school life. Our destiny seems to be more arranged to study hard and get a high score without any exploration. How much curiosity will be wiped out in my high school, how much time do you have? must be on study. At that time, even watching a hundred years of loneliness, I had to hide under the covers at night, secretly watching with a flashlight, although I didn't understand why. But the love at that time was really love, love so much that you can be passionate about it. When I saw Rocket's failures again and again, they became even more excited with their loss. They could try again and again, even if it was to steal Railroad tracks, stealing wood, stealing chemicals, they swim in the world of rockets like this, absorbing knowledge frantically, I really envy, envy the satisfaction of the goddamn curiosity, and envy their exploration methods to solve problems. And my high school was really like a pool of stagnant water. If you wanted to satisfy your curiosity at that time, it was almost impossible. Without any organization, it would take half a month to go home in a completely closed environment. Crazy You use piles of papers and topics to fill your mind, but I am also grateful for it. It has made me develop a spirit of continuous struggle, and it has also cultivated me a lot of good habits. I am grateful for that time, and it also allowed me to meet good friends that I have made and benefited all my life.

Life will slowly wipe out our passion and our urge to be passionate about something. Time is like this, and some people justify it, saying that it gives you maturity and gives you stability. It's all bullshit, it robs you of your courage, and maturity and stability are never given by time, but by the footnotes left by your blood in your youth, and by your casual stumbles.

I don't even know what I really love right now, it's so sad, I don't have anything to throw my blood around for, I don't have a goal that I can persist for one month, one month, one year, and one year after another, My pursuit is broad and I can't even say it is a pursuit, that is, to have a good life and good economic conditions, but these are not necessary, I can live without them, so maybe this is something I can't say. The key to passion. But Jack and the others have worked hard all the way, how hard and lucky their lives are, they escaped from the coal town, escaped the underground where life is in danger at any time, and they really went to space.

Yes, I've never been underground, but I'm so eager to go to space, and I'm just in my early 20s for graduate school, so everything is hopeful. Even if there is no love, we must always strive for this broad goal.

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October Sky quotes

  • Roy Lee: I'll tell you what's unbelievable... captain of the football team being jealous of you.

  • Principal Turner: Miss Riley, our job is to give these kids an education.

    Miss Riley: Mmm-hmm.

    Principal Turner: Not false hopes.

    Miss Riley: False hopes? Do you want me to sit quiet, let 'em breathe in coal dust the rest of their life?

    Principal Turner: Miss Riley, once in a while... a lucky one... will get out on a football scholarship. The rest of 'em work in the mines.

    Miss Riley: How 'bout I believe in the unlucky ones? Hmm? I have to, Mister Turner, I'd go out of my mind.